#taxscam — Public Fediverse posts
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Taxpayers: Beware of texts/emails about your "tax refund." 🚫 Scammers want your info to steal your refund. Don't click links or respond. Stay safe: verify with official IRS sources. 📞 Share this alert! #TaxScam #ConsumerProtection 🍀 More info: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2026/01/text-or-email-about-your-tax-refund-scam
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🚨 Phone scammers alert! Scammers posing as “Tax Resolution Oversight Dept” are calling about fake back taxes. It's NOT the IRS! Avoid being fooled: hang up immediately. Never share personal info over the phone. Stay informed and safe! 📞❌ Learn more: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2026/01/hang-unexpected-calls-saying-you-owe-back-taxes-those-are-scams #TaxScam #ConsumerAlert #StaySafe
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Having recently returned from a trip to #Germany, where I spoke at #VirusBulletin, I have become more familiar with the appearance of some German government operated websites.
The Bundeszentralamt für Steuern (or BZSt), Germany's federal tax authority, is also represented in these #TaxScam #phishing pages.
Bizarrely, #LoggerEIO have decided to clone the template of one of the US-themed versions of the #smishing page which prominently features a banner image of a US form #1040 #tax return, and the corner of a $20 bill, neither of which (I suspect) the #BZSt use for tax filing in that country.
Whoopsie! Or, as my German friends might say, Hoppla!
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Having recently returned from a trip to #Germany, where I spoke at #VirusBulletin, I have become more familiar with the appearance of some German government operated websites.
The Bundeszentralamt für Steuern (or BZSt), Germany's federal tax authority, is also represented in these #TaxScam #phishing pages.
Bizarrely, #LoggerEIO have decided to clone the template of one of the US-themed versions of the #smishing page which prominently features a banner image of a US form #1040 #tax return, and the corner of a $20 bill, neither of which (I suspect) the #BZSt use for tax filing in that country.
Whoopsie! Or, as my German friends might say, Hoppla!
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New Yorkers, watch out! Scammers are sending fake 'Inflation Refund' texts that look just like official state alerts. Could this be your next target? Find out how to stay safe.
#smishing
#phishingscam
#identitytheft
#cybersecurity
#newyork
#infosecurity
#fraudprevention
#socialengineering
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New Yorkers, watch out! Scammers are sending fake 'Inflation Refund' texts that look just like official state alerts. Could this be your next target? Find out how to stay safe.
#smishing
#phishingscam
#identitytheft
#cybersecurity
#newyork
#infosecurity
#fraudprevention
#socialengineering
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Kerala Opposition Leader VD Satheesan demands CBI investigation into a ₹1100 crore GST scam. Allegations include fake registrations, diverted funds, and data theft. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-gst-scam-cbi-probe-demand-opposition-vd-satheesan-ulwkx0c0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Kerala #Politics #GSTFraud #TaxScam
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Tax refund scam targets Californians https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/09/tax-refund-scam-targets-californians #taxscam #Scams #News #FTB
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Tax refund scam targets Californians https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/09/tax-refund-scam-targets-californians #taxscam #Scams #News #FTB
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The richest 20% get 70% of Trump’s tax cuts in 2026. The poorest 20%? Less than 1%. This isn’t policy — it’s plunder. #BigUGLY #TaxScam #Resist #TrumpWatch newrepublic.com/post/197356/...
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The richest 20% get 70% of Trump’s tax cuts in 2026. The poorest 20%? Less than 1%. This isn’t policy — it’s plunder. #BigUGLY #TaxScam #Resist #TrumpWatch newrepublic.com/post/197356/...
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Via @indivisibleteam:
#Republicans have a new talking point for gutting #Medicaid & #SNAP to give #billionaires even more #TaxCuts:
“We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a #GOP ghoul like #JoniErnst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with #Trump’s #TaxScam
#IApol #USpol #Senate #law
https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax -
Via @indivisibleteam:
#Republicans have a new talking point for gutting #Medicaid & #SNAP to give #billionaires even more #TaxCuts:
“We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a #GOP ghoul like #JoniErnst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with #Trump’s #TaxScam
#IApol #USpol #Senate #law
https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax -
[NYTimes-Gifted]: G.O.P. Tax Bill May Hurt the Lowest Earners and Help the Richest.
Even though most Americans may see lower taxes, Republicans’ spending cuts could outweigh those benefits and leave some worse off.By Tony Romm, May 16, 2025
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[NYTimes-Gifted]: G.O.P. Tax Bill May Hurt the Lowest Earners and Help the Richest.
Even though most Americans may see lower taxes, Republicans’ spending cuts could outweigh those benefits and leave some worse off.By Tony Romm, May 16, 2025
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MAGA talking point of the day: “Tariffs will bring in so much money we can replace income taxes!” This is weapons-grade bullshit. Tariffs are taxes on YOU, the consumer—not some magic cash cow. Trump’s economics are a con, plain and simple. #TrumpWatch #Resist #TaxScam
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MAGA talking point of the day: “Tariffs will bring in so much money we can replace income taxes!” This is weapons-grade bullshit. Tariffs are taxes on YOU, the consumer—not some magic cash cow. Trump’s economics are a con, plain and simple. #TrumpWatch #Resist #TaxScam
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Senator Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for over 14 hours now.
“He didn’t tell us he was going to do all these things. He promised to lower your grocery prices—they’re higher. He promised, “I’ll be a better steward of the economy”—it’s worse than when he inherited it. Over and over, he’s breaking promises and doing outrageous things.”
#corybooker #senatorbooker #trump #taxscam #taxcursfortherich #economyHold the line. Thank you Senator Booker
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Senator Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for over 14 hours now.
“He didn’t tell us he was going to do all these things. He promised to lower your grocery prices—they’re higher. He promised, “I’ll be a better steward of the economy”—it’s worse than when he inherited it. Over and over, he’s breaking promises and doing outrageous things.”
#corybooker #senatorbooker #trump #taxscam #taxcursfortherich #economyHold the line. Thank you Senator Booker
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#5yrsago How F Scott Fitzgerald conjugated the verb “To cocktail” https://www.openculture.com/2015/06/f-scott-fitzgerald-conjugates-to-cocktail.html
#5yrsago When Trump’s #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-law-threatened-turbotax-profits-started-charging-disabled-unemployed-and-students#164493
#5yrsago Tennessee police to drug users: don’t flush your dope or you’ll create “meth gators” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-police-warn-locals-not-flush-drugs-fear-meth-gators-n1030291
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#5yrsago How F Scott Fitzgerald conjugated the verb “To cocktail” https://www.openculture.com/2015/06/f-scott-fitzgerald-conjugates-to-cocktail.html
#5yrsago When Trump’s #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-law-threatened-turbotax-profits-started-charging-disabled-unemployed-and-students#164493
#5yrsago Tennessee police to drug users: don’t flush your dope or you’ll create “meth gators” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-police-warn-locals-not-flush-drugs-fear-meth-gators-n1030291
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CW: Long thread/8
#10yrsago 50,000 march against austerity in London, BBC doesn’t notice https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignore-massive-demonstration-against-austerity-in-london/</a
#5yrsago Texas Instrument’s post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/06/23/thanks-uncle-sam-after-tax-cuts-texas-instruments-spent-5-billion-on-stock-three-times-more-than-rd/
#5yrsago Man-Eaters Volume Two: Fleshing out the world where girls turn into lethal werepanthers when they get their periods https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/23/man-eaters-volume-two-fleshing-out-the-world-where-girls-turn-into-lethal-werepanthers-when-they-get-their-periods/
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#10yrsago 50,000 march against austerity in London, BBC doesn’t notice https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignore-massive-demonstration-against-austerity-in-london/</a
#5yrsago Texas Instrument’s post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/06/23/thanks-uncle-sam-after-tax-cuts-texas-instruments-spent-5-billion-on-stock-three-times-more-than-rd/
#5yrsago Man-Eaters Volume Two: Fleshing out the world where girls turn into lethal werepanthers when they get their periods https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/23/man-eaters-volume-two-fleshing-out-the-world-where-girls-turn-into-lethal-werepanthers-when-they-get-their-periods/
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"The rich, as we’ve reported, often deduct millions of dollars from their #taxes related to buying & operating their jets & yachts... Despite Crow's representations to the #IRS... no evidence that his yacht company was actually a profit-seeking business, as the law requires.
“Based on what information is available, this has the look of a textbook billionaire #TaxScam,” said Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore."
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht -
"The rich, as we’ve reported, often deduct millions of dollars from their #taxes related to buying & operating their jets & yachts... Despite Crow's representations to the #IRS... no evidence that his yacht company was actually a profit-seeking business, as the law requires.
“Based on what information is available, this has the look of a textbook billionaire #TaxScam,” said Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore."
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht -
Another big strike. Concurrent with UAW. You can’t blame them. Some folks will certainly. Inequality has been accelerating for decades, since Regan’s #GOP trickle-down. Trump’s #GOP #TaxScam&JobsAct gave massive tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy. Plus, it added “hugely” to USA national debt.
75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers launch historic health care strike
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Another big strike. Concurrent with UAW. You can’t blame them. Some folks will certainly. Inequality has been accelerating for decades, since Regan’s #GOP trickle-down. Trump’s #GOP #TaxScam&JobsAct gave massive tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy. Plus, it added “hugely” to USA national debt.
75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers launch historic health care strike
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@ArrestJK Here's your $20 a week and here's how you're gonna pay for it... What? Hang on, now I'm paying more for services and everything costs more. #TaxScam
Don't vote against your own interest #NZTwits this is a time for collective, community engagement to protect anymore of our whenua, environment and wairua being taken from us.
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@ArrestJK Here's your $20 a week and here's how you're gonna pay for it... What? Hang on, now I'm paying more for services and everything costs more. #TaxScam
Don't vote against your own interest #NZTwits this is a time for collective, community engagement to protect anymore of our whenua, environment and wairua being taken from us.
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Whenever #GQP starts promoting their latest 'Great Jobs' partnership (actually yuge #Corporate #TaxScam) just look at them sideways & say "oh yeah... we so need another #FoxConn"
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@shades @DavidCorn 😎 Well, if taking hostage(s) is still a crime, isn't the House "GOP" a criminal organization then?
#14thAmendmentSection4 #NationalDebt #DebtCeiling #GOPsExtortion #GOPsCoercion #BanTheGOP #RICO #OrganizedCrime #StupidEconomics #TaxScam #LootingAmerica #DefraudingAmerica #NationalSecurityThreat
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@shades @DavidCorn 😎 Well, if taking hostage(s) is still a crime, isn't the House "GOP" a criminal organization then?
#14thAmendmentSection4 #NationalDebt #DebtCeiling #GOPsExtortion #GOPsCoercion #BanTheGOP #RICO #OrganizedCrime #StupidEconomics #TaxScam #LootingAmerica #DefraudingAmerica #NationalSecurityThreat
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@enoch The last time Republicans really *wanted* poor & medium-income to cash in as a result of then-economic expertise & economic policy of the GOP was, when Ulysses Grant was President of the United states (1869 to 1877).
#AmericaMoves bc #AmericaWon #PresidentBiden #BanTheGOP #TaxScam #SixTimeBankrupt #CareerCriminal #CareerFraudster #LootingAmerica
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@enoch The last time Republicans really *wanted* poor & medium-income to cash in as a result of then-economic expertise & economic policy of the GOP was, when Ulysses Grant was President of the United states (1869 to 1877).
#AmericaMoves bc #AmericaWon #PresidentBiden #BanTheGOP #TaxScam #SixTimeBankrupt #CareerCriminal #CareerFraudster #LootingAmerica
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@morgfair How affordable are America's richest oligarchs & "GOP" donors for the nation?
#DefendAmerica #SaveLives #JusticeMatters #BanTheGOP #TaxScam #LootingAmerica
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@morgfair How affordable are America's richest oligarchs & "GOP" donors for the nation?
#DefendAmerica #SaveLives #JusticeMatters #BanTheGOP #TaxScam #LootingAmerica
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@Nshrubs Today's "GOP", the party of organized lying & corruption, does not serve the people.
Its "fiscal responsibility" only relates to its own pockets,no further.
It doesn't serve America.
It serves its donors & accomplices.It doesn't deserve to be seated in Congress.
#DefendDemocracy #DefendAmerica #Democracy #BanTheGOP #Corrupticans #Insurrection #Corruption #Complicity #CoConspirators #TaxScam #PPPLoans #StudentLoanForgiveness
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@Nshrubs Today's "GOP", the party of organized lying & corruption, does not serve the people.
Its "fiscal responsibility" only relates to its own pockets,no further.
It doesn't serve America.
It serves its donors & accomplices.It doesn't deserve to be seated in Congress.
#DefendDemocracy #DefendAmerica #Democracy #BanTheGOP #Corrupticans #Insurrection #Corruption #Complicity #CoConspirators #TaxScam #PPPLoans #StudentLoanForgiveness
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@GottaLaff
The #Republican #TaxScam for the filthy rich costs me $5,000 a year in additional taxes. -
@GottaLaff
The #Republican #TaxScam for the filthy rich costs me $5,000 a year in additional taxes. -
@tristansnell The politically & morally bankrupt "GOP" should be held liable with their parliamentary members' personal assets for the disastrous financial damage they corruptly caused to the taxpaying American public.
#RuleOfLaw #DefendAmerica #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #BanTheGOP #LootingAmerica #TaxScam #NationalGOPDebt
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@tristansnell The politically & morally bankrupt "GOP" should be held liable with their parliamentary members' personal assets for the disastrous financial damage they corruptly caused to the taxpaying American public.
#RuleOfLaw #DefendAmerica #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #BanTheGOP #LootingAmerica #TaxScam #NationalGOPDebt
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"Debt ceiling negotiations" with Kevin "SuperUpset" McCarthy???
All the congressional "GOP" wants, is to reestablish the precedent, that a "Republican majority" gained by voter suppression, disenfranchisement, gerrymandering & other methods of electoral fraud, can extort concessions from a Democratic President.
(Dems should always keep that in mind, when the legislative/executive configuration may change again!)"If Biden wishes to play along with McCarthy’s farcical claim that he wants to negotiate the deficit, he should insist on a real negotiation ***with taxing the rich on the table.***"
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/kevin-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-hostage-extortion-tax-deficit-budget.html
#DefendAmerica #DebtCeiling #Extortion #Obstruction #FarcicalGOP #FakeGOP #BanTheGOP #Corruption #DefraudingAmerica #TaxScam #LootingAmerica -
"Debt ceiling negotiations" with Kevin "SuperUpset" McCarthy???
All the congressional "GOP" wants, is to reestablish the precedent, that a "Republican majority" gained by voter suppression, disenfranchisement, gerrymandering & other methods of electoral fraud, can extort concessions from a Democratic President.
(Dems should always keep that in mind, when the legislative/executive configuration may change again!)"If Biden wishes to play along with McCarthy’s farcical claim that he wants to negotiate the deficit, he should insist on a real negotiation ***with taxing the rich on the table.***"
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/kevin-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-hostage-extortion-tax-deficit-budget.html
#DefendAmerica #DebtCeiling #Extortion #Obstruction #FarcicalGOP #FakeGOP #BanTheGOP #Corruption #DefraudingAmerica #TaxScam #LootingAmerica -
Global News BC: ‘Mad at myself’: B.C. student’s warning after falling prey to $2,800 tax scam https://globalnews.ca/news/9601967/tax-season-scam-warning-bbb-cra/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ServiceCanadascam #studentdefrauded #ConsumerMatters #studentscammed #taxseasonfraud #taxseasonscam #scamwarning #frauster #CRAscam #taxscam #Crime #Fraud #Scam
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Global News BC: ‘Mad at myself’: B.C. student’s warning after falling prey to $2,800 tax scam https://globalnews.ca/news/9601967/tax-season-scam-warning-bbb-cra/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ServiceCanadascam #studentdefrauded #ConsumerMatters #studentscammed #taxseasonfraud #taxseasonscam #scamwarning #frauster #CRAscam #taxscam #Crime #Fraud #Scam
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💰 It's tax season, and scammers posing as the CRA can be sneaky. Check out our latest blog article to learn how to spot a CRA scam and protect your hard-earned money: https://cira.ca/blog/cybersecurity/cira-guide-spotting-cra-scams #Cybersecurity #taxscam
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@Tbsa YES! Make the "GOP" debt-mongers refund, what they stole from American taxpayers again!
Organized thieves & insurrectionists don't deserve congressional representation.#Jan6 #TrumpInsurrection #TaxScam #DefraudingAmerica #DefendDemocracy #BanTheGOP
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CW: Tax scam by the rich
"To prevent the wealthy from easily skirting the wash sale rule, Congress would need to change the law, experts said. One fundamental, but long-shot, reform would be to automatically tax the annual fluctuations of investments’ value (called “marking to market”).
That would prevent the wealthy from being able to defer taxes on gains forever — and also render tax-loss harvesting unnecessary."
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CW: Tax scam by the rich
"look at the taxes of Jim Walton,... the 10th-wealthiest American, and you’ll see years of short-term losses, thanks to a tax-loss harvesting account at Northern Trust, a bank that specializes in managing the assets of the rich...
From 2014 to 2018, Walton grew $10 Billion richer... but reported only $111 million in long-term gains on his taxes. Since his losses easily overwhelmed those gains, he paid no taxes on them at all."
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-files-taxes-wash-sales-goldman-sachs
